[HungryBear]

I dont know about an update , but I can do down date. Er back date.

Here's Abe Mitchell , from Down To Scratch , 1933.

Attachment 2944


Sounds like the Aiming Point Procedure to me. I'm thinking Homer might have read this book , maybe. Who knows? Abe touches on what Homer calls Hands to Pivot as well, IMO.

Perhaps the above was a procedure Abe discovered on his own through years of trial and error, or perhaps some other golfer gave him the procedure? Itd be an interesting thing to ask a golf historian.

But the physics behind it, the reason to do it I believe is what Homer was referring to in 6-E-2 when he said;




Now alternatively or additionally IMO, you could of course change your Release Point ..... Release a tad earlier for the longer , slower to switch ends clubs. This is one reason why getting so nutso about Snap Release , beautiful though it is , can cause some grief IMO. Snap , Random Sweep , Full Sweep Release are necessary adjustments available to the master golfer. The physics , the reason for their employment though largely unknown to the golfer is still there. " You gotta sweep your long irons" was a common phrase back in the days of the long irons. Accomplished via ball position and release point considerations in TGM terms. Or you could just "get a feel for it" by watching others, "brush the grass". There's a sound to it too , not much divot if any etc etc.



Wanna hit your 7 iron a little higher than normal to get over a tree? Move the ball up in the stance , employ a slightly earlier Release Point or move your Aiming Point or various combinations there of. Or in common speak "sweep the ball off a forward ball positioned forward in your stance".

Well! After rereading 6-E-2 slowly about 50 times word by word and your comments above I have come to a conclusion. AIMING POINT IS A RESULT of alignments NOT AN ALIGNMENT BY ITSELF. After getting alignments to a point of satisfaction the aiming point becomes a "marker".

As U said in the 7 iron paragraph HK said in 1,2,3 page 83 ( 6th edition)

That is why I have a 68* wedge and a #1 iron, for practice only, never in the bag but practice smooth release, ball position and keeping hand rhythm THROUGH impact.

You mention snap release- The cure for the "snap release" ambition is to know that the entire right forearm goes into impact and maintaining right wrist bend. U can't "flip" that assembly.

HB